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CITY NEWS
Work lli-Kon on Bethlehem Church
—Excavating lor the new Bethlehem Presby
terian church begau yesterday. This purt
of the building will be S6x4o and will be used
for the lecture-room, parlors, Sunday school
rooms, with a large primary and kindergar
ten department, with modern equipment
throughout. In the basement will be a large
dining-room and kitchen, and all modern con
veniences. This building will be as com
plete and well arranged for its purpose as
modern thought can make it.
Northeaat Improver*—The Oakwood
Improvement association has been formed
with the following list of officers: President,
F. L. Palmer; secretary and treasurer, Dan
C. Brown; executive committee, F. H. Ring,
G. L. Dingman, E. M. Anderson, K. D. Baker.
The association is modeled after other Im
provement organizations in the city and will
look to the betterment of that part of the
city which lies north of Eighteenth avenue
NE and east of Central. The executive com
mittee will meet Friday evening for a con
sideration of the extension of these limits.
Civil Service Exumi-The civil serv
ice commission announce examinations July
23 for applicants for the position of store
keeper's clerk in the ordnance department at
large. A $1,200 position is open in the Benlcia
arsenal, California. Aug. 20 and 21 applicants
for the position of Inspector of boilers in the
steamboat inspection service will examined.
The age limits are 25 and 55 years. Two posi
tions are open, paying $1,200 and $1,500 re
spectively. Applications must be made to the
civil service commission at Washington.
Woodmen's Prl«e* Mixed—The Wood
men's prl«e committee Is having trouble
awarding th« prizes for the drill competition
of twin city Forester teams during the en
campment. The official score gave Minne
haha team first, St. Anthony second and
Copeland third. After many corrections in
the More, St. Anthony Hill Is first, Min
nahaha second. Forest third and Copeland
fourth. There is no fourth prize and Cope
land objects to being crowded out Mlnne
haha demands the first and official score. For
est demands third place and St. Anthony Is
willing to have the cards corrected if all
are corrected. The tangle will be handed
over to the general committee.
C. S. Church at ExceUlor— Articles
of incorporation of the First Churi|h of
Christ, Scientist, Excelsior, were filed yes
terday with the register of deeds by Robert
A. Wright. Mrs. HatUe L. Wright. Miss Anna
Apfar and Mrs. Nettie B. Harrison. The
general purpose of the corporation is "to es
tablish and maintain religious worship,
preaching and the teaching and practice of
Christian Science according to the teachings
of the Christian Science text book, 'Science
and Health, with Key to Scriptures,' by Mary
Baker Q. Eddy." Members must subscribe
to tha tenets prepared by Mrs. Eddy and
agree to base their practices and teachings
on the principles laid down in her text books
and In the Bible.
VISITORS ARE NOT WANTED
People Who Desire to See Crreenland
Mu*t Get a Royal Permit.
Montreal Herald.
Greenland is governed in a grand
motherly way by Denmark, but, as it con
sists of a group of colonies which would
sot under any circumstances attract many
tourists or traders, no outsider complains
of the exclusiveness of the Danish au
thorities. Trade always has been and still
ia monopolized by the state, and only gov
ernment vessels are allowed to sail in
Greenland waters. For foreign travelers
also Greenland is a closed country, unless
the traveler in question has beforehand
Secured the rare distinction of obtaining
the permission of the Danish government.
The monopoly of the trade is said to
protect the Greenlander from being de
ceived by unscrupulous merchants. The
administration settles a fixed price both
for the goods the Greenlanders purchase
and for the produota they sell. In this way
all are treated in the same manner, and
the business being carried on by the state
is a guaranty that teh natives are not
imposed upon.
Furthermore, the members of the admin
istration are enjoined to take care that
the natives do not leave themselves short
of produce by selling more than they can
dispense with so that they are destitute of
needful wood and clothing when the slack
time arrives. The native Greenlander
never has been, neither is he now, able
to purchase a single grop of spirits from
the administration.
The exchange of goods between Green
land and Denmark is a rule carried on ex
clusively by means of tine nine vessels be
longing to the Greenland company, viz.,
five brigs, three barks, and a small steam
er, having a total register of about 2,000
tons net. Several of these vessels, which
are suitable for sailing through drift ice,
make two voyages a year, and the steamer
as a rule three voyages. One of them,
the brig, named the Whale, is nearly one
hundred years old.
JOHN BULL ON THE STEEL TRUST.
Engineering.
An inevitable outcome—at least as re
gards the American market—will be a cen
tralization of steel control almost as com
plete as has been effected in petroleum
oil. So long as the supply of a commodity
was subject to economic forces, and its
price was fixed by the action of buyers
and sellers upon each other in the open
market, a man could afford to rely upon
his own judgment or simply to take his
chances. But if the output is to be regu
lated by two or three men, or if the sup
ply can be held till it suits half a dozen
men acting in association with each other
to put it on the market, the speculator has
no chance at all; he is playing with the
dealer, who has given himself all the
trumps. There is practically no specula
tion in oil. Speculation in copper has
- nearly ceased, for the production is con
trolled by a few great companies acting
together. There is scarcely any specula
tive trading in lead in the states—the
metal is controlled by a trust. The busi
ness of the Metal exchange in New York
has dwindled to very smalk proportions,
and there is only one opinion as to the
reason for it, and that is that the combi
nations are controlling the commodities.
Manifestly the same thing is being done
in steel, and it is to be added, as an in
stance of the way in which the consolida
tions are strengthening their position, that
the Lake Superior iron ore mines are prac
tically all under their control, and this Is
a development which tells still more
against the ever decreasing number of in
dependent manufacturers. It does not fol
low that the trust will pursue its advan
tage in the home market to the last cent,
because that would be to restrain enter
prise; but short of this—and it probably
knows where to stop—lt will have matters
pretty much its own way so long as the
cost of goods is kept just under that of
foreign commodities laid own in America
that is, with freights, import duty and
handling charges thrown in.
TIPS FROM THE NEW BOARDER.
Chicago Times-Herald.
When the new boarder went into the
dining-room and sat down there was only
one other person at the table. The new
"boarder had a kind heart, and thought
he would be affable.
"I e'pose you've boarded here for some
time?" he said to the other man.
"Yes, quite a while."
"How is it? Any good?"
"Yes, pretty fair. I have no complaint
to make."
"Landlady treat you decent?"
"Well, perhaps I ought to" and then
he hesitated.
"Oh. never mind, old man," said the
new boarder. "That's all right, I'm on.
But, say, mebby you never tried chuck
ing her under the chin once in a while.
That's the way to get on with 'em. I
never had a landlady that didn't treat
me Al yet. It's all in the way you handle
'em. Call 'em 'slater' and give 'em soft,
sweet, oozy talk about their looks. That's
the way to fetch 'em. I'll bet I can live
here for a month right now without bein*
asked for a cent. Watoh me nudge her
■when she comes in. Before this time to
morrow she'll be telling me her family
history. Poor old girl! She looks as If
■he'd had her troubles. Probably got tied
up to some John Henry who was about
man enough to shoo chickens out of the
yard, and that's all. My name's Hudson.
Let's see, I haven't heard yours, have I?"
"No —no, I believe not. But it doesn't
matter. I'm just the landlady's hus
band." •
The signs are that the troubles in South
Africa are not yet over. The Canadian*
contingent for the South African con
itabulary, over 1,000 strong, sailed for
Cape Town.
A BIG YELLOW ONE
An Imported Diamond That Weighs
207 3-4 CaratsJ
TO BE SHOWN AT PAN-AMERICAN
It Is About Twice the SUe of the
Kohinoor und In Worth a
Ijiruc Bank Account.
New York, June 29.—W That is said by
jewellers to be the largest diamond ever
seen in this country is now in this city
on its way to the Pan-American exposi
tion. It is canary color, and was pur
chased abroad to form part of an exhibit
at the exposition. It reached here from
the other side a few days: ago. It weighs
in its present finished state 207% carats.
The famous Kohinoor diamond, which be
longs to the British crown weighs in its
present form 106 1-16 carats. The color
of the larger stone makes its value only a
fraction of the value put upon the Kohi
noor. The weight of the Orioff diamond
is 194% carts. There have been reports
from South Africa about a diamond found
at Jagersfontein in 1893, weighing 971%
carats and blue white in color.
The stone now here, to which no name
has as yet been given, that being reserved
until it reaches Buffalo, was found about a
year ago in the Kimberley district in South
Africa. Its weight in the rough was 600
carats. It was recognized as a stone
which it would be a pretty hard job to
sell, so a syndicate was formed to pur
chase it from the Deßeers company, bring
it to Europe and try and find a market
for it. It was cut in Amsterdam and lost
about two-thirds of its weight. It was
then purchased by Stern Brothers In Am
sterdam.
A reporter was permitted to see the
diamond yesterday. It is about the size
of a bantam's egg. It is cut as a brilliant
and has sixty-four facets. As a canary
or yellow diamond it is perfect, being ab
solutely flawless and with a very brilliant
lustre.
The Pan-American diamond will prob
ably travel all over Europe after it has
been exhibited, for then will begin the
hunt for a purchaser. In the case of a
diamond of such a size to sell it in an or
dinary way is hardly possible, and its
commercial value, therefore, cannot be es
timated. Diamonds of a quarter of its
size and of the same color have travelled
all over the world many times before they
have found a purchaser. Usually they go
to some crown collection or cabinet. That
is where the owners of the present stone
hope it will go after the exhibition, and
for that reason it will be shown in every
city of any size In Europe in order that
royalty may get a look at it.
That it will form one of the most inter
esting exhibits at Buffalo cannot be
doubted. It has excited a great deal of
interest and amazement among the jew
ellers.
REMINISCENCES OF ROBERT BURNS.
Notebook of Dr. Chambers.
Mr. Tennant of Ayr, whom I visited to
day, has a perfect recollection of Burns.
He is a wealthy man, without a cultivated
intellect, but able to convey clear and cor
rect impressions of what has fallen under
his observation. He first knew Burns
when attending Mr. Murdoch's school at
Ayr, he then 15, Burns about a year and a
half older. Mr. Tennant used to visit
Burns at Mount Oliphant, and stay over
night with him, sleeping in the same bed.
The father of the poet was intelligent, and,
having acquainted himself with some sci
entific principles of farming, attempted
improvements but without success. When
he died, Burns, his brother and sisters
saved themselves from utter ruin by mak
ing up claims for their services, which,
being preferable, left scarcely anything
for the creditors. This enabled the fam
ily to begin on their own acocunt in
Mossgiel, but injured their character in
the country. Gilbert Burns was refused
by a Miss Ronald, living at Bennals, near
Tarbolton, in consequence of her disap
proval of the action and the talk which it
occasioned. Mr. Tennant afterward lived
in the neighborhood of Mauchline, and
from his twentieth to his twenty-fifth year
his most intimate friend was Robert
Burns.
Mr. Tennant speaks in enthusiastic
terms of the wonderful intellectual gifts
of the poet. Robert had read much, bor
rowing books from many. He- read quick
ly, but remembered all that was interest-
Ing in what he read. Mr. Tennant was
more impressed in his youth by the pow
ers of discourse shown by Burns than
afterward by his poetry. His elocution,
he says, was like that of Kean—so deep,
so thoughtful, in tones so emphatic.
Whenever he entered into controversy he
carried everything before him. Mr. Ten
nant says that Burns never could endure
■business. If Mr. Tennant spoke of any
such thing to him, he would say, "Oh,
talk to my brother about that." Neither,
however, was Gilbert a good business
man. He did not succeed In any farm he
ever had. Mr. Alexander, of Ballochmyle,
said he was a man of words and not of
deeds, meaning that he could talk well,
but not act up to his own ideas. He also
said he was a good farmer in his own arm
chair.
MOTHS USED AS FOOD.
Scientific American.
An article of food which is relished by the
natives of the Philippine Islands is procured
by collecting large quantities of moths from
the rocks of the mountainous regions. In
several spots in the mountains in Panay and
other islands of the group, I saw moths ex
isting so thickly In the rocky tissues that
they could be scraped off into buckets by
the quart. The moths seemed to mass in
the crevices and hang there.
The natives have not failed to investigate
the worth of the moth as an article of food,
and they use tho Insect* in large quantities.
Their mode of catching consists in going to
the hills In parties of a dozen or more, with
the proper bags and articles for collecting the
moths.
The scraping process Is used In Borne sec
tions of the islands, while in Negrog Isle
particularly, I noticed -that they adopted a
different scheme. Here they spread a bamboo
mat on the ground beneath an overhanging
colony of the moths and then proceed to dis
turb the insects with the point of a spear
or piece of bamboo. The little insects lose
their hold and drop to the mat. They are
slow of action, and before they can crawl
away the game is bagged.
The dainty natives will not eat the wings
or the heads of the little moth, and so they
now take steps to remove these objection
able parts. This operation consists in cre
ating heat to such an extent that the tissue
in the heads and wings become baked and
crumble off.
The natives accomplish this end by cutting
holes In the earth. In which hot fires are
burned until the earth Is quite hot. The
hot coals are taken away, and the moths are
put into the highly heated openings. The
intense heat crisps the head and wings to
ashes, so that when removed from the hole
and subjected to a sifting operation through
netting, the powdered parts are sifted off
leaving only the body. This process also
does away with the legs.
Often the moths, in their present stage of
preparation, are eaten with sugar or other
articles of food. Again, the moths are used
in conjunction with other mixtures of food.
In the form of pudding and prepared dishes.
The cocoanut is liberally used in mixtures
with the moth, and cocoanut cake and pie
and moth fillings are common.
Then, in some instances, the moth is again
baked and reduced to powder by pounding in
rice-pounding bowls. The powder obtained
In this way is sweetened and used in various
forms.
ALMOST AS PROFITABLE AS APPENDI
CITIS.
Detroit Free Press.
"Here's a distinguished scientist who says
that after all there is nothing in germs."
"Nothing in germs? Nonsense. Why, look
how much the doctors have made out of
them."
The servants of some of the best
places 'in Shanghai club together and pay
a cook to provide and prepare their food
for them at a cost of $2.50, Mexican, a
month, or about $1.25 a month in gold, or
a fraction over 4 cents a day in our money.
Cincinnati begins to show its age. It
was first settled in December, 1788. It
was incorporated as a town with 800 in
habitants in 1792, and was incorporated as
a city, in 1819, with a population of 9,800.
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
LOWRY SAYS'NOT SO'
Denies Report of Consolidation With
Canadian Electric Lines.
"T. C." IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM
He Say* He Expect* to Be Connected
With It Till He
Die*.
Thomas Lowry, who returned from
the west this morning, was quick to
deny the latest report in connection with
the Twin City Rapid Transit company.
The report in question was telegraphed
from Toronto, Can., and was to the ef
fect that the street railway interests of
Quebec. Montreal, Toronto, Minneapolis,
St. Paul, Duluth. West Superior and Win
nipeg were to be consolidated.
"As every one knows," said Mr. Lowry,
"the street railway systems of Minneap
olis, St. Paul and Stillwater are under on©
management. As for Duluth and West
Superior, while the systems in those cities
are not connected with the Twin City
Rapid Transit company, the same general
financial interests dominate them. Vice
President Goodrich, of the Twin City
company. Is president of the street rail
way systems ot Duluth and West Supe
rior.
"But I have no interests whatever in
street railways in Canadian cities. I
really know nothing about them. I am
content with twin city stock at present."
"What of the morning report that the
street railways of Minnesota and Canada
were going to consolidate?"
"I never heard of it until I read the
morning paper."
"No truth in it?"
"Not in the least. I have never even
seen several of the street railways named
in the alleged consolidation, and I would
not be likely to buy a railway system I
have never seen. Besides, I have no
money to invest in street railways in
Canada; it takes all my capital to run
street railways in Minnesota."
"If there should be a consolidation of
street railway systems, could It be brought
about by exchange of securities?"
"I know nothing about that, but I can
say this, that if there should ever come a
time when the Twin City system got mixed
up with other companies in Canada or
elsewhere, it would be time for me to
quit the business. I have no idea how
street railways can be run by any such
mixed up arrangement. You can say for
me that if that time should ever come to
Minneapolis, I will not be in the street
railway business. I have no conception of
any good end such consolidation could
serve. How can there be any 'community
of interest' In the running of two street
railways, say, in Montreal and Minneapo
lis? I expect to be connected with the
Twin City system as long as I live and do
business, but you can depend upon it that
I will never attempt to run street rail
ways on any such plan."
"Could there be combination for manu
facturing purposes?"
"Yes, there could be; but we need no
such combination here. We have the fin
est plant in the country, cheap power, and
an up-to-date manufacturing establish
ment in every respect. We are prepared
to build cars for all comers; but we are
not ready to mix up with the concerns of
Tom, Dick and Harry in the dominions
north of us or elsewhere. I do not do
business that way."
AT HOME IN THE WATER
An Expert Seven-Year-Old Girl
Swimmer at Bath Beach.
Brooklyn Eagle.
If Elaine Golding, the seven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Gold
ing, has a rival among girls of her age
as a swimmer, diver, and general adept
in aquatics, that rival is not known at
Bath Beach, where the little miss has ac
quired her almost phenomenal skill and
her never failing confidence in her own
powers. At that watering place, and, In
fact, all along the'shore In that neighbor
hood, the Golding family are famous as
swimmers. Mr. and Mrs. Golding always
have been enthusiastic surf bathers, and
each of the children—Thomas, a young
man of about twenty-two; Miss Florence,
Miss Ethel, and little Elaine—have been
taught tho art of swimming in all Its
phases, Miss Ethel having become par
ticularly expert.
But it is believed that before long
Elaine will be crowding her big sisters
and even her brother for their honors,
for she has already developed a degree of
skill and endurance which is little short of
marvelous. The Goldings have a cottage
at Bath Beach, on Benson avenue, at Bay
Twenty-third street. They are among the
earliest to arrive at the beach and the last
to leave, and every day finds the entire
family having all kinds of fun in the
water at the foot of Deßruyn's lane. The
Captain's pier, as it is called, is the point
from which they do their high diving,
and it is from this point that their per
formances are watched daily by many
spectators. Some of these spectators will
remember one of the features of this daily
gambol three or four years ago. This was
the appearance in the water of Mrs. Gold
ing, with a chubby, pink-faced cherub
hanging about her neck, "pick-a-pack"
fashion.
With the cherub still on her back, Mrs.
Golding would wade out until the water
rose about shoulder high' and then she
would swim, with the little one half in
the water and half on her shoulders, out
to the float. Once there, the tot would
be lifted up to the float by her mother,
who would then move back a little and
call out, "Now jump, baby; jump, Elaine."
Whereupon the cherub would jump off
the float striking the water with a tre
mendous splash, to be caught by the skil
ful mother and put back on the float.
This performance would be repeated sev
eral times every afternoon, and it was
thus that little Elaine learned that most
important lesson of the swimmer—not to
be afraid of the water.
Elaine is now a stout little miss of seven
years, as brown as a berry in summer
and the picture of health the year round
—as, indeed, are all of the Goldings. She
has yellow hair and blue eyes, full of fun
and ready for a romp at all times.
Elaine's romps, however, are of the kind
which few children of her age can in
dulge, much less enjoy. For it is at Bath
Beach that she has her "mostest fun,"
and it is a kind of fun that she enjoys
with all her heart. She has mastered the
overhand English racing stroke, as it is
called, a style of swimming which is
used in races, and is considered the most
effective stroke that has yet been devised.
Lying on her side, with one little arm de
scribing arcs above her head, as she
reaches forward, while the other follows
it, once the hand is well dipped, and the
stroke has begun, she can plow her way
through the water at an astonishing rate
of speed, swimming not only rapidly, but
with ease and grace.
Nor is she less skilful and courageous
In diving, floating, and doing all of the
other tricks known to swimmers. She
likes nothing better than the plunge from
■the bathing pavilion on the Captain's
pier, which is fully twenty feet above the
water, and not one of the family makes
the dive more gracefully and confidently
than she. Indeed, the other members of
the family have learned by experience
that it is not safti to "dare" Elaine to do
anything in the way of swimming or
diving, for it is known that she will not
"take a dare."
The sovereign has never been a popular
coin in India. Among the wealthier na
tives who have not yet learned to trust
the yellow metal as currency, the Idea of
turning a sovereign into ornaments, such
as earrings and brooches, has recently be
come a fad.
Up to Jan. 1, 1900, New Jersey assisted
in the building of 440 miles of roads, at
a cost of about $2,200,000, or about $5,000
per mile. Of this amount the state paid
$716,000, the counties and Individuals pay
ing the remainder.
CURE KINKY HAIR
Negroes Might Appreciate That, But
Don't Care for Bleaching.
THEY ARE PROUD OF THEIR RACE
Though an Occasional Individual
May Dettlre to Be White—Afri
can Prosreas.
If Professor Johnson of the University
of Kansas had invented something to take
the kink out of the colored man's hair
I instead of a compound to enable the
Ethiop to change his hue, his fortune
would be made. According to the best
judgment of prominent colored perßons in
! the city his discovery of leucite for the
inoculation of negroes in order to produce
a white skin will have no great sale. It
will not aid in the solution of the race
problem, it will not better the condition
of the colored people.
The negro is proud of his race—his dark
skin is only an inconvenience. Character
is more than skin deep. Perchance now
and then a colored miss, like her white
sister who uses cosmetics, would wish to
bleach her skin, but that is only an indi
vidual idiosyncrasy. This is the substance
of interviews with men prominent among
the colored citizens of Minneapolis.
"Poop Hatr" an Affliction.
As a race, the negroes do not believe
that a mere whitening of the complexion
will have any bearing on the elevation of
the race. But, strange to say, it is the
opinion of many that most any negro
would like to get something to straighten
out "poor hair" as it is called. While the
white society girl endeavors by all man
ner of means to produce curly, kinky hair,
her favored sister, the colored girl, is just
as anxious to remove this birthmark.
The habit has already taken a strong hold
on the colored belles. Different means
of accomplishing this have been discov
ered and many straightening concoctions
have a ready sale. One manner of means
Is the hot iron, another a drug which is
so that extreme care must be
taken in its use, but which produces mar
velous results, making the kinky hair ab
solutely smooth.
A colored man in the city related an
instance of knowing, years ago, a girl with
"poor hair." A few years later he met
his friend at a gathering and so trans
formed was she by the absence of kinks
in her hair that he required a new in
troduction.
No (hanse of Hue Desired.
W. S. Morris, the colored attorney, ad
vanced some novel ideas on the subject of
leucitis this morning. Said he:
The inference from the account of Professor
Johnson's discovery might be that the negro
desires to change his color. My opinion^ is
that no intelligent negro would think of such
a thing. It would not change a man if he
changed his. color. Some negroes might try
something of the kind, but I think no In
telligent one would desire to do so.
It is a settled conviction among the col
ored people that they must work out their
own salvation on their merits, and a change
of color of complexion would not change the
characteristics. Manhood and true merit
will bo recognized under any color.
J. L. Neal, the real estate man, holds
very decided views in regard to his race
and its development. When shown The
Journal article in regard to the whit
ening of the skins of colored people he
said:
I think that every Intelligent blp.ck man is
satisfied with his complexion and that he does
not feel inferior to the white man on account
of his color. It has proved an inconvenience
at times on account of the prejudice against
color, but as to having a desire to be white,
why, that's a thing that never entered my
mind. I never thought of it for a minute.
I think any man who has race pride about
him Is contented with his color. I think
that the truth of the whole matter Is that
people get wrong impressions of the negroes.
I know as a matter of fact that they have
the pride of any other race. We must have
time to educate our neighbor on the sub
iect, he must have knowledge on the ques
tion to understand it. The black race is like
all other races. But we are not like other
races in this respect thar. everything tfcat the
Mack man is is American. We bring no
traditions from Africa as do other races
trom their home land.
The colored man is not so much interested,
in imitating the white man as to reach the
standard he has attained. He may be con
sidered a little extravagant with his means
In endeavoring to reach this standard, but his
opportunities are small.
There are a few colored persons, like white
girls, who want to bleach their skins and
have freukles removed. I presume that there
are blacks who would like to remove klnkq,
as some white girls want to have curly hair;
but I presume that these are mere fancies
of the individual. As I walk on the street
I see plenty whites who are bleached out,
and that may be true of some colored per
sons.
Live Better Than Whites.
The black man comes into touch with the
best class of whites, as porters, waiters, serv
ants and in like capacities. And when you
come into his home you will find that he
tries to live after the manner of the best
class of whites. In this imitation he may
have one great failing of living considerably
beyond his income. But I think I may say
that blacks live better than the same grade
of whites, or those who have the same in
come. Their homes are better fixed up,
cleaner and neater.
MEN WHO NOW ASK RELIEF
A Comparison of the Mortality- Be
tween the Rich and Poor.
Medical Record.
The National Provisioner, studying the
health statistics of New York city, with
the view of ascertaining whether the rich
or poor sections of this metropolis are the
most conducive to good health and long
life, takes first young children—that is,
those under 5 years of age—as a basis of
comment. The figures are for the second
quarter of 1900.
The twelfth ward uptown, where a fair
sprinkling of the very rich of this city
have their pied a terre and where the
prosperous brethren have 'their more abid
ing homes,. afford the following statistics
'with regard to the death rate of young
children: This ward has a population of
364,412; has only 61.6 people to the acre,
but its death rate for children under 5
years of age was 769, while <the plebeian
thirteenth ward downtown, in the vicinity
,of Grand, Division and Rlvington streets,
and the East river, with a population of
66,802 people and 539.5 to the acre, had a
death rate of 106 children under 5 years
of age. The relative percentages are in
favor of the slums.
Other comparisons drawn between dis
tricts in which plutocrats live and those
inhabited by the so-called lower classes
bring to light a similar state of affairs.
The total deaths of those of all ages in
proportion to population is then dealt
with, and reveals truths equally as sug
gestive. The twelfth ward in Harlem
shows a total death rate df 2,287 for its
364,412 people, living 61.6 to the acre, while
the thirteenth, downtown, with 56,802 peo
ple, living 539.5 to the acre, had a death
roll of only 196.
The above figures give rise to thought.
It is probable, too, that statistics taken in
a like manner the civilized world over
would yield somewhat corresponding re
sults. No one, of course, would even at
tempt to argue from such records, that it
Is more healthy to live in a tenement
house swarming with human beings like
bees in a hive, than in an airy, well
ventilated, commodious marble or brown
stone structure. The writer in the Na
tional Provisioner does not argue this;
indeed, he draws but few deductions.
Nevertheless, he places his finger upon one
important point when he says, "The poorer
classes, eating plainer and more nutritious
foods, seem to prosper constitutionally
better than the eater of rich foods, who
expects to digest his dinner by sucking in
fresh .air in a ride through the parks."
Vicksburg, Miss., reports a recent fall
of 10.22 inches of rain in thirty-six hours.
BY BUGGY LIMITED
Soo Road Officials Go Land-Looking
in the Dakotas.
BISMARCK LINE TRAVERSED
That City Will Probably Be Con-
nected With Aberdeen, S. I).,
by Next Seaxon,
President Thomas Lowry and General !
Manager Pennington of the Soo returueJ
this morning from an extended trip over
the Bismarck extension and the projected
line t.o the Black Hills country. Messrs. j
Lowry and Pennington, accompanied by
two friends, went over the proposed line
from Wishek to a point near Fort Yates
on the Missouri river, with a livery team.
The party also drove over the old grade :
from Ashley to Aberdeen. In all a dis- I
tance of 220 miles was covered by buggy.
Work on the line extending in a south
westerly direction for fifty or more miles
toward the river is progressing finely, and
it was to familiarize himself with the j
country that -Mr. Lowry undertook the j
trip. He was also anxious to determine at {
what point the road would touch the Mis- I
souri. While the exact point has not yet I
been established, it is understood to be \
about ten miles below Fort Yates.
The trip of the officials over the old
grade from Ashley to Aberdeen is signifi
cant, as the Soo owns the grade, which is
in good condition, and will in all probabil
ity finish the line connecting Bismarck
and Aberdeen next season. The comple
tion of this line will afford an outlet for
the lignite on the line of the Bismarck,
Washburn & Great Falls railway, devel
oped by Senator W. D. Washburn.
CHANGES HANDS
The Wholesale Grocery House of
Johnson. Ea«tman & Co.
The old established house of Johnson,
Eastman & Co., formerly Dunham & East
man, wholesale grocers, will cease busi
ness Monday next and its affairs will pass
into the hands of the Green & De Laittre
company, a newly incorporated concern.
The articles of the new company were
filed with the register of deeds this morn
ing. The capital stock is placed at $300,
--000, of which $100,000 is preferred and the
balance common. The preferred is to bear
interest not to exceed 7 per cent per an
num. The limit of indebtedness is fixed
at $200,000, and all stock is to be paid for
at par before being delivered. The incor
porators of the new concern are Thomas
H. Green, John De Laittre, Karl De
Laittre and Charles A. Green.
Thomas H. Green is a veteran in the
wholesale grocery business, having sold
his interest in a large concern at Sioux
City, in order to engage in the Minneapo
lis venture. Charles A. Green is his son.
The De Laittres are well known in Minne
apolis and the northwest by reason of
their prominence in lumbering circles.
Harry L. Spencer is included with those
named as the first board of directors.
ALLEGED TACK SOWERS
Kalker and Smith Will Be Placed on
Trial To-morrow.
J. D. Kahler and Albert Smith, a bicycle
inspector and his assistant, were ar
raigned in the police court this morning
charged with strewing tacks and broken
glass on the Fifth street bicycle path.
They pleaded guilty and their cases were
set for tomorrow.
Ed H. Hammer, a bicycle repairer on
Fifth street S, wants The Journal
to correct the suspicion which he says
prevails in some quarters that he placed
tacks on the Fifth street cycle path.
A TAX OF $6,022.23
Pittsburgh Steumship Company Pays
It Without Being Aoked.
The Pittsburg Steamship company of
Duluth to-day forwarded to the state au
ditor a check for $6,022.23 with which to
pay its tonnage tax for the current year.
The company has never before paid such a
tax, but comes forward voluntarily with
the statement that it is operating forty
seven steamers and thirty-three barges,
en which the tax amounts to the above
check. The Northern Steamship com
pany's tax, paid recently, amounted to
$479.64.
STAYED OUT
Late to Come Home and Have His
Jealousy Aroused.
New York Journal.
For the sake of his domestic happiness,
the name of the man who figures in this
truthful tale is not published. He has a
young and very pretty wife, of whom,
without rhyme or reason, he is intensely
Jealous.
But it must be said that his occupation,
which is honorable and profitable, keeps
him out very late at night and often until
early in the morning.
Being of a companionable disposition,
this man occasionally relaxes after a
night's hard work. Then he does not get
home until breakfast time.
He was very nervous when he appeared
downtown yesterday afternoon.
"What time did you get home this
morning?" asked his best friend.
"Not until 7 o'clock. But that amounts
to nothing. I didn't get away from the
office until 4," he answered impatiently.
He was silent, reflective, for a minute.
"To tell you the truth," he broke out,
angrily, "I came nearer making an infer
nal fool of myself this morning than ever
I did before. I came nearer to breaking my
wife's heart than I ever want to again."
"No," wonderingly from his friend.
"Yes, I tell you. When I got home my
j wife was up. She was in the kitchen, the
j door was shut. When I opened the door
of the flat I heard her say: "Oh, you
dear little thing—' "
"Was she talking to the baby, to the
cat, or to the dog?"
"Confound it. we haven't any baby. I
hate dogs. I kill cats. 'Oh, you dear lit
tle thing,' she said, and she laughed. My
blood seemed to freeze. Who was in the
kitchen?
"I tiptoed in; put my ear to the kitchen
door.
" 'Oh, you dear little thing,' my wife
said again, as if she was petting some
body. 'You're getting dearer every min
ute,' she said. 'I'll have to put you where
you can't run away from me.'
"I madly flung open the door. Oh, what
an infernal idiot I am" —and he groaned.
"Your wife was talking to —"
"To the piece of ice the iceman had just
pulled up the dumb-waiter."
HIS MEDICINE "WORKED BETTER.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Pennsylvania dootor, whose practice
is largely among the mlllhan&s of his lo
cality, is telling an amusing story at the
expense of an old Irishman. Both he and
his "wife were taken with severe colds that
threatened to develop into grip, and the
doctor advised quinine and whiskey as an
antidote. "You must both take it," he
said. "Take it every three hours—two
grains of quinine and a swallow of
whiskey." The next day he called again.
The man was up and about, but his wife
was in bed. "Did you follow my instruc
tions?" asked the doctor. "To the let
ter," replied the husband. "How much
quinine have you left?" was the next
question. "Sure, Oi fink she have taken
th' whole uv it," said the man. "And
didn't you take tt, too?" asked the doctor.
"Divil th' bit," was the reply. "Begorrah,
it kept me busy takln th' whiskey every
toime she took a pill, an' sure she's in
bed an' Oi'm up."
The cinematograph for the blind is a
machine which passes under the fingers
of the blind, a series of reliefs repre
senting the same object in different posi
tions —the branch of a tree, a bird or any
other object. The blind person has the
illusion of moving scenes, just as photo
graphs passing over a luminous screen
led the illusion to those with sight.
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1901.
OVER THE HILL
ISJ2I POOR HOUSE
"Over the hill to the poor house I'm trudging my ; / pa^^^ ■ "^g£L^ '
weary way — / * »
I, a woman 0/ seventy, and only a trifle gray — __ k -i/^^WIL '
As many other women that's only half as old" 7^ Wml —
To himself and all those dependent upon /J^^^^^^^^SStw'-^"
him to keep in the Bank a sum of ready mfflSiGmß Jft BS^ffifttP'- J0
cash to use in cases of emergency. mvffSlo9 H'ilv^^B '*
By depositing each week or month a IH^S^^^^Hsij^Sm^^^
few dollars in the Henn"epin County Say- KSHTJfI«PB V&/£
ings Bank you will build the foundation p^hW^^^^^^^^^^M
of ease and plenty for yourself and those 'iwß^JKM^^gi Br>^!»^^
All in all, it is the judgment of careful ®%^^^^^^S/'^^^
business men that, take a period of ten TffijjfiS/ Wl!^^^^'
years, a deposit in a savings bank will . jHfl«f|MS*i§S| Hi v "~
beat nearly all speculative investment. A waWV&^ttuKS^am.
deposit in the old reliable Hennepin lfsf^^^9^^mSKL -^"
County Savings Bank will give you a de- fflmWmSfflfm fflMt *^*
posit, safe, sure and profitable. An in- W^^mt^MxSsßS^ —
stitution established thirty years ago. U^^^^^m^' '"^j^^l
Paid up capital and surplus, $125,000. J. | S§|a^|§&ifcf ~=~iJ&^^
E. Bell, president; W. H. Lee, cashier. '^^ s^t^^^^^
|-|ennepiri County
Savings Bank
I Money Deposited up to July sth Draws I
I Money Deposited up to July sth Drmws I
I Interest at 3 Per Cent from the Ist of July. I
FLOODS IN MONTANA
Miles of Great Northern Track
Washed Away.
LOSSES THE HEAVIEST IN YEARS
Xo TrnitiM Pmssiiiu Between Mlnot
and Havre Save Those Work-
Ing on Repairs.
Special to The Journal.
Havre. Mont., June 29.—The Great
Northern road is experiencing great dif- j
flculty with high water east of Havre. A
dispatch from Glasgow says the washouts
proved the most destructive in three
years. The track from Minot to Havre
! was damaged to such an extent that all
trains save wrecking have been stopped.
Between Trenton and Culbertson three
bridges were destroyed and two miles of
track washed away. A half mile of track
has gone out at Oswego, Mont., and mud
obliterates the track for a half mile more,
preventing the passage of trains.
A west bound train went into the ditch
at Hinsdale, twenty-five miles west of
Glasgow where forty feet of track was
washed out, wrecking one ear and destroy
ing the drawheads and couplings of twen
ty-eight more. Many wrecking trains are
at work and the company hopes to have
the line open this afternoon.
Not in years has Montana experienced
such heavy rains. Ail the streams are
running bank high and the water holes
upon the prairies are full. Stock of all
kinds is in fine condition, and indications
are that ranchmen will have a wonderful
crop of hay and grain.
NORTHWESTERN BAPTISTS
Rev. M. E. Bailey of Bemldji Moder
ator of Crookston Meeting:.
Special to The Journal.
Crookston, Minn., June 29. —The forty
first annual meting of the Northwestern
Baptist association is in progress at the
First Baptist church in this city. The
attendance is not as large as expected,
yet delegates to the number of fifty are I
present, many of them coming from the
twin cities and points In southern Min
nesota.
Rev. M. E. Bailey of Bemidji was elected
moderator, and R.ev. L. D. Steinhoff of
Detroit, clerk and treasurer.
TRUE TO HER PRINCIPLES.
It is often said, and doubtless conscien
tiously believed, that we have today no
martyrs. Yet once in a while an incident
that shows the old spirit of devotion to a
principle comes to light, as in this pretty
and pathetic little story, told by the
Youth's Companion, of an old woman who
lived, in the heart of the mountain re
gion of New Hampshire.
The nearest church was fourteen miles
from her roughly built home in a logging
camp, and her nearest neighbor was over
eight miles distant. Finally the beauty
of an interval two miles from the camp
drew to it a number of people, and at
last a hotel was built.
When the hotel had b?en open for some
•weeks, the wife of the proprietor one day
received a call from her neighbor of the
logging-camp.
"It's a sight of comfort to me to have
you so near," said the woman wistfully.
"I used to have neighbors where we lived
before we came here. I'm too busy to get
away from the house on week-days gen
erally, but Sunday afternoons ever since
you came I've walked down to a gap in the
woods, and there I can look through and
see the smoke coming out of your chim
ney, if it's a good, clear day, such as we
sometimes have. It's real company for
me."
"You poor, dear soul!" said the warm
hearted landlady, with tears in her eyes.
"Why haven't you come down here any
and every Sunday to have a talk with
me?"
"You're real kind," said her visitor,
with a flush of pleasure, "but you see I
was raised among folks that didn't hold to
Sunday visiting, and I've tried to keep to
my principles just the same 'w&y off here.
The first time I saw that smoke coming
out of your chimney," she admitted, with
a trembling smile, "it did seem as if I'd
got to come, but I thought of the way I
was raised, and I managed to hold firm.
And when he offered to come down with
me of a week-day I felt repaid and re
warded, after only waiting seven weeks,
ma'am."
Broken Hip Unknown for a Week
For over a week J. A. Nash, a cooper'
living at 1112 Twenty-sixth avenue NE,
has been tossing about in his bed, deliri
ous with pain. He met with a bicycle ac
cident June 19, but it was not until yes
terday that It was discovered that he had
a fractured hip. Upon the discovery of his
real condition he was put in a plaster
cast, but his nervous system had been so
racked that death may follow.
A big dog is primarily responsible for
Mr. Nash's unfortunate condition. As Mr.
Naah was pedaling home over the Monroe
cycle path near Twenty-fourth avenue NE,
a large dog ran out in front of the wheel,
there was a collision and the rider fell.
A JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE
DEFENSE IX THE WIXTXER CASE
Countryside About Granite Fall*
Greatly Interested in the
Doctor's Trial.
Special to The Journal.
Granite Falls, Minn., June 29.—The
Wintner murder trial opened yesterday
afternoon, and the interest taken by the
people is intense. Many are here from
other towns and the crowd is immense.
Wintner conducts himself well, but shows
his confinement has told upon him.
The defense is so handling the case that
the private character of every man con
nected with the affair as witnesses even
will be exposed to the public gaze. The
public does not appear to be in sympathy
with this move.
The feeling against Wintner is very
strong, and it was a hard task to secure
a jury. Most of the witnesses have al
ready been examined and the case will
probably go to the jury to-morrow. The
defense is going to make a strong fight
to prove justifiable homicide, by*. from
what one hears on the street, it is evi
dent the public is not in sympathy with
this idea, whatever the jury may be made
to think. The prosecution will strongly
combat this proposition.
COLLINS' LIFE SPARED
Canadian Murderer Extended Mercy
by Dominion Cabinet.
Special to The Journal.
Ottawa, Ont., June 29.—An order In
council was passed at yesterday after
noon's cabinet council, commuting to life
imprisonment the sentence of death
passed on Fred Collins for the murder of a
man named Dardo. Collins was provoked
to the deed.
BURIAL OF L. S. FOLLETT.
Special to The Journal.
Hastings, Minn., June 29.—The remains
of L. S. Follett, former president of the
First National bank and one of Hastings'
most prominent citizens, arrived here from
Minneapolis yesterday afternoon and -were
interred in Lakeside, the funeral being
held from St. Luke's church. Rev. P. H.
Linley officiated. —Coroner F. W. Kramer
deemed an inquest unnecessary over the
remains of Henry Lorenzen of South Park,
who passed away fro heart trouble. His
age was 82 years.—A. C. Dahn, of St.
Paul, and Miss Anna B. Larson of West St.
Paul were married here.
"THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US."
The world is too much with us; or soon,
Getting and spending, we may waste our
powers;
Little we see in nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid
boon!
This sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours.
And are ungathered now like sleeping flow
ers; i
For this, for everything, we are out of tuner
It moves us not. Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less
forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Last season William Reese, owner of a
large apple orchard near Bean Lake, Mo.,
sustained considerable loss through rav
ages of insects among the fruit. This
year, in addition to spraying his trees, he
will place 50 lighted lamps in different
parts of the orchard at night, depending
on a practical demonstration of the moth
and-flame theory.
Owing to the conditions which now ex
ist, the retail grocers of this city are
compelled to adopt a system in their credit
business which is but just and fair to
consumer and grocer alike. The job-
bers, manufacturers and commission mer
chants compel the retail grocer to pay
their bills in full every week and ten days
and if not oaid by that time the grocer
finds it necessary to pay cash or go with
out goods until such bills are paid in full.
The Minneapolis retail grocers are, there
fore, compelled to adopt the system of car-*
rying no balances whatever on their books
and have unanimously adopted a resolution
to the effect that no balances will be car
ried by any grocer in this city on and
after July 1, 1901. and no customer will
receive credit from any other grocer until
they have paid their bills in full.
This imperatively applies to all custom
ers without exception. Very respectfully,
The Minneapolis Retail Grocers' Associa
tion, J. S. Taylor, secretary.
striking on the stone curb. At first it did
not appear that he was seriously hurt,
and he arose to adjust the* seat of his
cycle before proceeding home. Pain caused
him to desist, and he soon fell to the
ground quite helpless.
The physician who was summoned no
ticed that there was something wrong with
the hip, but apparently did not deem it ol
a serious nature, and Mr. Nash's general
prostration was believed to be due to ner
vous shock. But he failed so visibly and
rapidly that a consultation of rorgeoni
was called yesterday, and it wae then de
termined that the poor man had broken
his hip. Mr. Nash is 62 years of age.
